Nigeria’s president declares emergency in oil-rich state
Nigeria is facing an escalating political crisis after President Bola Tinubu declared…
Ghana journalist awarded $18m in US after suing ex-MP
A US court awarded Ghanaian investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas $18m (£14m)…
DR Congo and Rwanda call for ceasefire in Qatar talks
The Democratic Republic of Congo's President Félix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart…
Ghosts of apartheid haunt South Africa as compensation anger brews
It was late at night on 10 December 1987 when prison officers…
‘Nigerian Senate is run like a cult’, suspended MP tells BBC
A Nigerian senator who alleged she was sexually harassed by one of…
Last-minute deal to protect African penguins from extinction
Six key breeding areas are to be safeguarded to help save the…
Nigeria and Kenya among nations running out of HIV drugs – WHO
Eight countries - six of them in Africa, including Nigeria, Kenya and…
‘No-one can handle another war’ – Tigrayans fear fresh Ethiopian conflict
People living in Mekelle, the main city in Ethiopia's war-scarred Tigray, have…
South Africa should not be ‘bullied’ by US in ambassador row, opposition says
Opposition parties in South Africa have called on its president not to…
‘I was duped into leaving London for school in Ghana – but it saved me’
When my mother told me at the age of 16 that we…
